2025 CBCA Notables - Complete List

Worms Are Our Friends

Our Friends in the Garden

Laughter is the Best Ending

2025 CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR: Younger Readers

The Truck Cat

2025 CBCA Picture Book of the Year & 2025 ABIA Children's Picture Book of the year (ages 0-6) & National Simultaneous Storytime 2025

The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Extinct Animals

My Family and Other Suspects

2025 ABIA The John Marsden Book of the Year for Older Children (ages 13+)

Happy All Over

CBCA Notable Book 2025

We Do Not Welcome Our Ten-Year-Old Overlord

Footprint

The Wobbly Bike

2025 CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR: Early Childhood

South With the Seabirds

Bernie Thinks in Boxes

I Hope This Doesn't Find You

The Big Book of Australian Nursery Rhymes

The bestselling Australian nursery rhyme collection in hardback for ages 2 and up

When the World Was Soft

Yindjibarndi Creation Stories

Over or Under?

Shower Land 1

Break the Curse

Afloat

Unreal

Can you tell fact from fake?

The Land Recalls You

Design & Building on Country

First Knowledges for younger readers

Worst Week Ever! Saturday

Ella and the Amazing Frog Orchestra

Ella and the Frogs

Wedge-tailed Eagle

Nature Storybooks

Don't Worry, Felix

Extreme Animal Facts

Eleanor Jones Can't Keep a Secret

For 60,000 Years

Amid the Sand Dunes

Little Worlds #2

To Stir with Love

Landovel

Presented in a stunning embellished giftbox containing all three books with colourful sprayed edges

I'm Not Really Here

2025 CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR: Older Readers

Six Summers of Tash and Leopold

Plantabulous!

More A to Z of Australian Plants

The Skin I'm In

Words That Taste Like Home

Always Was, Always Will Be

2025 CBCA Eve Pownall Award Winner

Tweet

Ming and Ada Spark the Digital Age

The Girls Who Changed the World

Fluff, Mess Up!

Fluff

The Garden of Broken Things

A new picture book from Australia's award-winning children's author and illustrator, full of kindness and compassion

Come Together Again

A Celebration of First Nations Music, Song and Dance

these long-loved things

How to Move a Zoo

The incredible true story

Comes the Night

Walking Together

The Space Between

How to Break a World Record and Survive Grade Five

Dinosaur in My Pocket

The Anti-Racism Kit

A Guide for High School Students

The Invocations

Birdy

A CBCA Notable Book for Older Readers

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tooth Fairy (And Some Things You Didn't)

Meerkat Mayhem

The Midwatch

Wedge-tailed Eagle

Nature Storybooks

All About the Brain 

Walking the Rock Country in Kakadu

Karrire kundenge karribolknan kunwarddehwardde

Into the Ice

Reflections on Antarctica

Into the Mouth of the Wolf

Saskia Spark-Lee

Fundraiser Fail

We Live in a Bus

The Sweetness Between Us

My Brother, Finch

The Most Amazing Thing

Reading to Baby

I Am Tree Rex!

Kimberley Kickers : Jy Goes for Gold

Kimberley Kickers

Just Like You

Small Acts

The Kindness Project

Deep Is the Fen

Liar's Test

The Silverleaf Chronicles

To and Fro

Wrong Answers Only

Look Me in the Eye

Countdown to Yesterday

Three Dresses

Kittens Do Not Care for Baths

Preschool Problems

Dragon Folding

Stickboy

Two Turtles

Kate Forsyth's Long-Lost Fairy Tales

Maria Petranelli is Prepared for Anything (Except This)

Winner of the Ampersand Prize

Tigg and the Bandicoot Bushranger

A new thrilling historical adventure book from Jackie French! A CBCA Shortlist Book and winner of the ACT Literary Awards 2025

Hello Twigs, Look Who's Grumpy

Volume 6

BFFs (NOT) (Twinning #1)

Real Pigeons Power Up

Real Pigeons #12

Sky Country

One Little Dung Beetle

How to Make a Bedtime

The Other Shadow

White Noise

Sunny Finds His Song

Listen, Hippo!

A Way Home

Good Hair

General Waste

Tilly in a Tangle

Grow Big, Little Seed

2025 CBCA Award for New Illustrator Winner

Spiro